Chamber and committees

To go back to a question that was raised before, there were concerns about the ability to suspend muirburn licences where

“there is an official investigation or proceedings in relation to an offence under this Part”.

Could you perhaps give clarity as to what is “an official investigation” and what are “proceedings”?

What are “proceedings”, then?

I am trying to understand the issue of licences, which are terribly important in all of this. I take it that the licence will go with an area of land.

So, will there be a named person on the licence? I am just trying to understand this.

Therefore, it does not matter if you cannot serve a notice on them or anything like that.

I have a brief supplementary question. Is there an appellant procedure, if a licence is suspended?

What is the process?

Therefore, in such circumstances, there is a method, which is to apply to the sheriff to appeal the suspension.

Thank you. I wanted that to be clarified.

What was it about? I can just ask it. [Interruption.] Oh, the code of practice. I now know what it is—thank you very much.

What is the justification for having a statutory code of practice when you already have licensing?